The current state of the weapon sandbox in Helldivers 2 isn’t ideal. Players are seeing fun weapons getting toned down, while the rest of the weapons are getting near-meaningless buffs. And Arrowhead’s CEO agrees that something needs to change.

This isn't expected to last long, as on May 13, the Arrowhead developer who goes by the name Evil-Bosse shared on the Helldivers 2 Official Discord that CEO Johan Pilestedt is doing a "major internal push to redress the balance" and that there are currently "many conversations, meetings and chats going on" about the matter.

Last week, Pilestedt said he felt Arrowhead had gone too far in some areas and that he wanted to talk to the team about how to address weapon balance. "It feels like every time someone likes something, the fun is taken out of it," he wrote.

Aside from certain primary weapons feeling extremely underwhelming, players pointed out that weapon nerfs could affect more than one weapon. "Pre-nerf Eruptor allowed me to use the Stalwart in ways I never could before (I never really used it much before)," one player wrote, adding that the latest R-9 Eruptor change ended up weakening two weapons for them.